Ensure that all information conveyed with colour is also available without colour.

Pages must be readable where style sheets (CSS) are disabled or are not supported by the web browser.

Ensure that all information can be reached where JavaScript is disabled or is not supported by the web browser.

Provide labels and default text for all form fields.

Clearly identify the target of each link.

Please note that many of the advanced features of our site use JavaScript and CSS Style Sheets; though we have ensured that you can still access our content when these are disabled, the quality of your experience will be considerably lower.
We strongly reommend that you enable these features of your web browser when using our site.

Do you need help in making the web easier to use?

This page explains ways you can change your browser to make the web more accessible for you.

Please click your operating system to see how you can change the view of our website on your browser. Alternatively read on to see what we have done to make our website accessibile.

As a charity we only have limited funds for developing our web resources, but we have aimed to make our website as accessible as possible. This includes:

Text

Text can be scaled by changing the browser settings or by using your mouse wheel.

Verdana and Arial is used throughout for body text as it is easier to read onscreen.

You can quickly increase or decrease the size of both text and graphics using the Keyboard

Press ' + ' (in some versions you might need to press the ' Shift ' key as well) to increase size and the ' - ' to decrease text size. Each press will increase or decrease the size by 10%. Alternatively press 'Alt ' + ' V ' to bring up the view menu and then press ' Z ' to bring up the zoom options then use the up and down arrow keys to select the option you want followed by 'Enter' .

Linux

Firefox 1.5 / 2

Open the ' View ' menu with the mouse or by press ' Alt ' + ' V '.

Click ' Text Size ' or press ' Z '.

Click on ' Increase ' or ' Decrease' to change the text size or press the right arrow to expand the ' Text Size' menu options and use the up and down arrow to select ' Increase ' or ' Decrease' and then press ' Enter '.

You can quickly increase or decrease the size of both text and graphics using the Keyboard

.Press ' Shift ' + ' + ' to increase size and ' Shift ' + ' - ' to decrease text size. Each press will increase or decrease the size by 10%. Alternatively press ' Alt ' + ' V ' to bring up the view menu and then press ' Z ' to bring up the zoom options then use the up and down arrow keys to select the option you want followed by ' Enter ' .